Date: Sat, 2 Sep 1995 11:50:10 -0400 From: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: novell ne2000 cards with FreeBSD...opinions? Message-ID: <199509021550.LAA22427@mail.htp.com>
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>I'm a western digital biggot, and have historically stayed away from >NE2000 cards, but I have a need to put together about 10 systems for >some emergency radio work I'm doing and I wanted to get some newer >opinions on the cards and the driver state, given the price difference >between the two designs. > >Is the ed/NE2000 flavor of the driver reliable now? Overruns? > >What kind of performance can I expect to see on a NE2000 vs a 16 bit SMC card >when running FreeBSD? > >e.g. would you dare build a diskless NFS client with a NE2000 clone? > We use VLB NE2000 cards with the ed? in our non-PCI machines and are very happy. Both our NFS server and our main gateway system use them. Dennis
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